Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-22
A RELIEF BILL.
Bill Providing Seed for Texas
Dr0uth Sufferers to be Re.
ported Fayorably.
Sums Recommended by the Agricultural
Committee for ths Support of
the Service.
SEED FOR TEXAS.

| the committee do not recommend the
| full amount asked for by Mr.. Lanham,
still liberal allotment of seeds will be
made if the measure passes the house.
Mr.. Lanham and the entire Texas delega-
ton will use every possible effort to get
the unanimous consent to consider the
| bill, and will move TO sus-
pend the rules and pass it
st an early day. These are the only
methods possible, under the house rules,
| to pass the bill. In the report
the committee say unprecedented
drouth has obtained in about twenty
one counties and has existed for
more than one year with slight
and unimportant exceptions, that as &
general rule there has been practically a
total loss of crops in said district, and
that crest dearth and restitution now eX-
ist therein and are liable to become more
aggravated. The committee then quote
the dispatch to the Fort W Orth GAZETTE
| from Albany, December %, regarding the
action of the county judges in this mat
| ter, and conclude their report as follows
"We respectfully submit that similar re-
| lief bills have heretofore passed congress
when portions of the country have been
affected by damages from grasshOpDers
and ovcrfi0ws of rivers. In view of this
fact and Of the distressing situation which
exists il Texas we recommend (he imue-
date passage of the bill as amended"
RECOMMENDED BY THE AGRICULTURAL
COMMITTEE.
Special to The Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2i.-The agricul-
I II pD 81 f.i-
lowing sums among other items for the
support of the service during the next
fiscal year. The total appropriation is
$5G5, $50:
Thirty-two thousand dollars for ex-
peTiments with Southern cane. The
sorghum experiments last year were q
iailEFat Although S7O 600 was spent
sony about 200 pounds Of marketable
sugar were produced.
Fifteen thousand dollars for expert
ments in silk culture.
One hundred thousand dollars for
Strengthening cattle.
Twenty thousand dollars for cattle
quarantine.
The committee also recommended that
the statistician of the department be sent
to Europe to attend the International
Agricultural Convention and appropriates
$4,000 therefor.
MAKING GOOD SMALL AMOUNTS.
special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-The following
estimates were submitted to-day by the
secretary OF the treasury to cover def
cieIcies for support of mail distribution
and postoffice inspectors for the fiscal
year 1886: James Pollock, late post
master at PearSonville, Tex, $500; flames
II. Griffin. late postmaster at
Owensville, Tex, $50; James
D. Mailer, late postmaster
at Milwood, Tex, 500; Thomas Keel
ing, late postmaster at Anderson, Tex,
81 80; T.. S. Gillespie, late postmaster at
Calvert, Tex, % cents; Eugene A.
Guage, late postmaster st B4rrard's
Mill, Tex, % cents; James King, late
postmaster at Fairfield, Tex, % cents;
Lyman 3. Russell. late postmaster at
Helena, Tex, % cents; Samuel c. Slaugh-
ter, late postmaster at Chapel Hill, Tex
Is cents.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-Mr. Riley Cor
don has been appointed superintendent:
of public buildings at San Antonio.
Among the historic army posts selected
for abandonment under the plan for the
concentration Of troops by regiments at
large posts near railway centers are
Forts Lyon, Col, Union, n A., and
Hayes, Kan. The garrisOns OF these posts
will be sent to Denver, when thenew post
established there next summer.
INTRODUCED BY MILLER OF TEXAS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-Representative
Miller of Texas to-day introduced in the
house bill for the relief of depositors in
the Freedman's Savings Bank. The bill! IS
framed on the recommendations OF the
comptroller of currency, and appropriates
100000 for the relief CT depositors in the
bank.
Mr.. Miller of Texas also introduced a
bill to amend the laws relating to national
banking associations, which embodi, S
the recommendations OF Comptroller
Trenholm on this subject, sub
mitted to the banking committee
before the holiday recess. The bill pro-
poses to amend the statutes relating to
the administration of oaths to bank off
Gals, enlarges the power of assistant
cashiers, for the punishment of persons
making false reports, requires the bonds
the circulation to be interest bearing, for
lids banks to accept mortgages as securi-
ty for loans, provides for the exemption
of shareholders from individual liability
for the surplus funds, empowers deputy
comptroller to perform duties assigned
to him by the comptroller, and provides
means for the resumption OF business by
failed banks after Il settlement in full of
all liabilities.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-The interstate
commerce bill as agreed upon by both
the houses of congress in its first section
applies the provisions of this act to any
common carrier engaged in transportation
of passengers wholly by railroad or
partly by railroad and partly by water.
When both are used under @ common
control or management or by arrange
ment through more than one state or ter
ritory or from any place in the
United States to any adjacent
foreign country. Il defines the term
''railroad" 20 include ell bridges and
ferrys used or operated by any railroad.
All charges made for any service rem
dered in transportation of passengers
and of property shall be reasonable and
just, and every unjust and unreasonable
charge for such service is prohibited and
declared to be unlawful.
Section 2 makes it unlawful for any
carrier subject to the provisions
Of this act to charge, demand, collect or
to receive directly or Indirectly from any
person or persons greater or